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<h1>Download Python 0.3 Documentation (last updated on Feb 10, 2008)</h1>

<p>To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of
Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers
in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes.</p>




<p>These archives contain all the content in the documentation section.</p>

<h2>Unpacking</h2>

<p>Unix users should download the .tar.bz2 archives; these are bzipped tar
archives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2
program. The <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">InfoZIP</a> unzip program can be
used to handle the ZIP archives if desired. The .tar.bz2 archives provide the
best compression and fastest download times.</p>

<p>Windows users can use the ZIP archives since those are customary on that
platform. These are created on Unix using the InfoZIP zip program. They may be
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<p>Note that the .tar.bz2 files are smaller than the other archives; Windows
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<h2>Problems</h2>

<p><strong>Printing PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0:</strong> Adobe has
reportedly admitted that there is a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.0 which causes it
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to produce the PDF version of the Python documentation, and our documents
definately trigger this bug in Acrobat Reader. To print the PDF files, use
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<p>Reportedly, Acrobat Reader 6.0 can print these documents without this
problem, but we've not yet had an opportunity to confirm the report. Sadly,
version 6.0 is not yet available on Unix platforms.</p>

<p>If you have comments or suggestions for the Python documentation, please send
email to <a href="docs@python.org">docs@python.org</a>.</p>


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